[IBC] Fertilizing: Cakes vs Powder
 

Every year about this time I start thinking about a topic with
many opinions
which is how to apply organic fertilizer. The two main camps I
have come
across are Use Cakes as spreading powder across the top
continually will
form a crust which will hinder proper watering and Use Powder
as cakes can
cause hot spots and do not spread the fertilizer evenly. Now I
know that
you can break up crusts as they form on the soil surface and am
not sure if
a hindering crust will actually form if you repot every year.
I also know
that a mild organic fertilizer will most likely not cause a hot
spot and
that you can put enough cakes on the surface to allow
sufficient spreading
of the fertilizer as it dissolves. So what is you take on
this?

I use liquid organic fertilizer, once a week in spring, every 2
weeks in summer and every month in fall. I supplement with an
inorganic fertilizer (Peters, etc.) with micronutrients every so
often.

No moldy poo balls littering the surface, no crust.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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